Celebrating Black Voices In Cinema

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Join Montclair Film and The Clairidge as we showcase African American stories in film through screenings and discussions all month long.


WHO WE ARE: A CHRONICLE OF RACISM IN AMERICA
Opens Friday, February 4


BODY AND SOUL (1925)
One Screening Only!
Friday, February 11 at Cinema505
Followed by a discussion with artist and lecturer Onnie Strother
Presented in Partnership with the Montclair Public Library


THE GIRL FROM CHICAGO (1932)
One Screening Only!
Friday, February 18 at Cinema505
Followed by a discussion with local historian Betty Holloway
Presented in Partnership with the Montclair Public Library


WHY IS WE AMERICANS?
Opens Friday, February 18
Q&A with co-director Udi Aloni to follow the FREE Community Screening on Saturday, February 19
Presented in Partnership with the Montclair African-American Heritage Foundation


MAURICE HINES: BRING THEM BACK
One Screening Only!
Saturday, February 20
Followed by a Q&A with director/producer John Carluccio and writer/producer Tracey E. Hopkins
Presented in Partnership with Out Montclair 50+


SWING (1938)
One Screening Only!
Friday, February 25 at Cinema505
Followed by a discussion with Onnie Strother and Betty Holloway
Presented in Partnership with the Montclair Public Library

Featured Films in this Series:

coming soon

The Metropolitan Opera Live: Fidelio

March 15

Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. 

coming soon

Ma France à Moi

February 20

France, in her sixties, lives alone in her bourgeois apartment in eastern Paris. When she hears on the radio about an association that connects homeless refugees with people who can offer them shelter, she picks up the phone to volunteer.

coming soon

Hard Truths

February 28 - March 6

coming soon

Millers In Marriage

February 21 - 27

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